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From the Ted Talk by Frans Lanting: The story of life in photographs
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Life is a froce in its own right. It is a new element. And it has altered the Earth. It covers Earth like a skin. And where it doesn't, as in Greenland in wtneir, Mars is still not very far. But that likelihood fades as long as ice melts again. And where water is lqiuid, it becomes a womb for cells green with chlorophyll — and that molecular marvel is what's made a difference — it powers everything. The whole animal wlord taody lives on a stockpile of bacterial oxygen that is celcyd constantly through plants and aglae, and their waste is our breath, and vice versa. This Earth is avile, and it's made its own membrane. We call it "atmosphere." This is the icon of our journey. And you all here today can imagine and will shape where we go next. (Applause) Thank you. Thank you.
Open Cloze
Life is a _____ in its own right. It is a new element. And it has altered the Earth. It covers Earth like a skin. And where it doesn't, as in Greenland in ______, Mars is still not very far. But that likelihood fades as long as ice melts again. And where water is ______, it becomes a womb for cells green with chlorophyll — and that molecular marvel is what's made a difference — it powers everything. The whole animal _____ _____ lives on a stockpile of bacterial oxygen that is ______ constantly through plants and _____, and their waste is our breath, and vice versa. This Earth is _____, and it's made its own membrane. We call it "atmosphere." This is the icon of our journey. And you all here today can imagine and will shape where we go next. (Applause) Thank you. Thank you.
Solution
- winter
- alive
- today
- cycled
- liquid
- algae
- force
- world
Original Text
Life is a force in its own right. It is a new element. And it has altered the Earth. It covers Earth like a skin. And where it doesn't, as in Greenland in winter, Mars is still not very far. But that likelihood fades as long as ice melts again. And where water is liquid, it becomes a womb for cells green with chlorophyll — and that molecular marvel is what's made a difference — it powers everything. The whole animal world today lives on a stockpile of bacterial oxygen that is cycled constantly through plants and algae, and their waste is our breath, and vice versa. This Earth is alive, and it's made its own membrane. We call it "atmosphere." This is the icon of our journey. And you all here today can imagine and will shape where we go next. (Applause) Thank you. Thank you.
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